Pakatan Rakyat – Good for the country?
Yes.
I am cautiously optimistic.
But let me put a few of my thoughts on ‘paper’ and see how they stand up.
I am in full agreement that we need to move away from race based politics AND the identification of ethnicity as a criteria for assistance/advancement/handicap. People are different because and ONLY because we define that difference between us. The idea that we are different makes us different.
If we accepted that all of us deserve the same amount of space required to grow as a people, we would be! Sounds so simple but yet it is so contentious.
And it will remain so.
We need to vote. To vote to continue to CHANGE MINDS with regard to being a Bangsa Malaysia. I don’t want another conversation like I had yesterday with a market research firm who said to me at the end “you not Malaysian ah?” after I gave them my name. When I said yes I was the next question was “what race are you?” It irritates me when I hear that.
However, having said that, we had a NEGATIVE vote against a ruling party NOT a POSITIVE vote for the opposition/government now in 5 states.
This means that we will have serious resistance to change by forces STILL in play.
